# micheal-martin - Today’s News
# micheal-martin - Thursday 23 May, 2013
The HSE have been in contact with RTÉ and will be shown the undercover footage today.
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# micheal-martin - Tuesday 21 May, 2013
Enda Kenny offers a loyal defence of Alan Shatter, as opposition TDs continue to call for the justice minister’s head.
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# micheal-martin - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
“Ultimately the entire population will be covered by free GP services,” Taoiseach Enda Kenny told the Dáil.
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# micheal-martin - Saturday 4 May, 2013
Breaking via The Mire wire: Peter Mathews takes himself hostage and the Womb Repossession Bill takes centre stage.
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# micheal-martin - Thursday 2 May, 2013
It had been reported that changes in how the State charges insurers for public beds could send premiums even higher.
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# micheal-martin - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Enda Kenny was speaking in the Dáil this afternoon after the Cabinet had earlier suspended its meeting without agreement on a draft abortion law.
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Kevin Sheahan sparked anger in Limerick’s council chamber when he demanded an ‘Irish first’ housing policy, but Micheál Martin has refused to properly sanction these anti-immigrant statements, writes Dr Matt Cannon.
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# micheal-martin - Saturday 27 April, 2013
The full text of the Fianna Fáil leader’s speech to his annual party conference – including his support for public sector workers (but without any mention of abortion).
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The Fianna Fáil leader will be delivering his address to his party from 8.30pm. Join us to see what happens.
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Adams rounded on the party for its political opportunism.
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# micheal-martin - Friday 26 April, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader was speaking as the party’s Ard Fheis got under way at the RDS in Dublin this evening.
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Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today…
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Delivering his opening address at the party’s Árd Fheis, he said “reconnecting with the people” would take longer “than we have had”.
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Enda Kenny says 25 months into government, the legacy of previous cabinets is still casting a shadow over the economy.
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The party is to debate motions which include reforming the way a party leader is elected and the circumstances under which it would go into coalition government.
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# micheal-martin - Thursday 25 April, 2013
The Tánaiste says the government’s focus is on dealing with mortgage arrears, rather than directly controlling interest rates.
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# micheal-martin - Sunday 21 April, 2013
Speaking at his party’s 1916 commemoration, the Fianna Fáil leader said that the failure of the Croke Park Agreement was a “crisis of the government’s own making”.
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# micheal-martin - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The Tánaiste calls for ‘calm, reasoned reflection’ after the Croke Park 2 pay proposals were struck down by public workers.
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# micheal-martin - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
Enda Kenny says the outcome of the Croke Park 2 vote doesn’t change the Government’s need to cut public payroll costs.
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# micheal-martin - Sunday 17 March, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader wants a specific module of the tribunal reopened in light of new allegations concerning a previously undisclosed payment made by independent TD Michael Lowry to the land agent Kevin Phelan.
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# micheal-martin - Thursday 14 March, 2013
Micheál Martin also questioned the Government about home repossessions following comments by Matthew Elderfield.
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# micheal-martin - Wednesday 13 March, 2013
Enda Kenny denies that the personal insolvency legislation gives banks the chance to totally block any debt relief.
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# micheal-martin - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
Micheál Martin suggests that the government is only now dealing with the problem because of the Meath East by-election.
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# micheal-martin - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Eamon Gilmore asked Sinn Féin whether it would encourage people to be tax compliant and pay the property tax later this year.
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# micheal-martin - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
The Taoiseach tells the Dáil it’s not just Gardaí who are being asked to make a contribution to economic recovery.
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# micheal-martin - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
After a string of tribunals, political scandals and economic catastrophes, reports of Fianna Fail’s death were greatly exaggerated – but why? asks Maura Adshead.
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# micheal-martin - Sunday 3 March, 2013
The latest opinion poll shows three parties close together in the polls… but who should be Taoiseach after the next election?
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# micheal-martin - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
In heated exchanges in the Dáil this morning, the Taoiseach said the current disability transport payments are “illegal and obsolete”.
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# micheal-martin - Saturday 23 February, 2013
In the region of 500 young Fianna Fáil members are expected to attend the event, which takes place in Sligo this weekend.
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# micheal-martin - Thursday 21 February, 2013
The position became vacant following the death of Fine Gael TD Shane McEntee in December.
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# micheal-martin - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said credit unions could lose up to €17 million in the liquidation of the former Anglo Irish Bank.
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# micheal-martin - Sunday 17 February, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader also explained why his party didn’t introduce a property tax when in government and outlined his views on social media in a wide-ranging interview with TheJournal.ie this week.
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# micheal-martin - Saturday 16 February, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader said he had a “good chat” with his predecessor at a recent funeral but neither Cowen nor Bertie Ahern have any input to party policy.
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# micheal-martin - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Donegal County Councillor Seán McEniff said that Travellers should be “segregated” in a “community of their own” in a recent interview.
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The Fianna Fáil leader told TheJournal.ie it was wrong that the Magdalene Laundries survivors were not acknowledged when he was in government.
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# micheal-martin - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader told TheJournal.ie he doesn’t know how many doctors should assess suicidal risk and said he is not currently in favour of widening abortion legislation to include pregnancies as a result of rape.
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Enda Kenny told the Dáil that he was not happy with the banks’ level of resolution of cases where customers are in mortgage arrears.
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# micheal-martin - Friday 8 February, 2013
The Ipsos MRBI poll in tomorrow’s Irish Times puts FF on 26pc, with Fine Gael on 25pc and Labour down to 10pc.
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# micheal-martin - Thursday 7 February, 2013
“Could I honourably suggest that if you want some order from the government TDs then perhaps you should close the Dáil bar.”
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# micheal-martin - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
The Fianna Fáil leader said he was sorry his party did not deal with survivors when it was in government.
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